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DiaStar Release 2.0

For those of you may have missed the press release last week, Release 2. 0 of The DiaStar™ Server is now available for Download at www.projectdiastar.org . This new release brings a variety of video features from the Dialogic® product portfolio...

Published 03-17-2010 12:40 PM by Jeff Dworkin

Filed under: Video, Mobile Video, IVR, Open Source, Redundancy, SIP-SS7 gateway, IVVR, Diastar, Asterisk, Woomera, FREESwitch

Can Internet Video be Free?

Content-owners attitudes to YouTube vary wildly. On the one hand some (like Viacom) have decided on high-stakes legal battles for "massive intentional copyright violations". On the other, some conventional broadcasters (like NBC) have created...

Published 03-13-2010 9:32 AM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, mobile, over-the-top, TV, internet

DiaStar Redux

I've been at the UC Expo in London, where we have a show stand, with one of the major themes being our open source project, DiaStar . We're located close to the Digium Asterisk Pavillion, where there are several Asterisk-related talks going on...

Published 03-11-2010 1:11 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Open Source, Diastar, Asterisk

SIP Trunking and the Enterprise Network Edge

I have been a product manager in the enterprise media gateway space for a number of years. Over that time, enterprise media gateways have matured from simple toll bypass devices which enabled cheap long distance calling to elements which enable a wide...

Published 03-09-2010 1:21 PM by Vince

Filed under: SIP Trunking, SIP, network edge, SIP Mediation, SIP-SS7 gateway

Cloud Computing – the Terminator Movies had it all right!

In one of my last blogs, I talked about why the concept of Cloud Computing has taken hold now and what’s involved from a technical and non-technical standpoint. Cloud Computing sounds so easy, so all companies should just do this, right? Wrong....

Published 03-08-2010 2:17 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing

Video Conferencing - an Underused Technology

Video-phones used to be the stuff of science-fiction. In the 1960s the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey , one character calls home from a payphone on the way to the Moon. Of course it was a video-phone, and he was able to have a video conference with his daughter...

Published 02-26-2010 3:07 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, science fiction, video calling, videoconferencing

The Fire Is Back at the Fira

Mobile World Congress, held at the Fira in Barcelona (Catalonian for fairgrounds is what I understand the word to mean), is always an exciting time for me and our company. Everyone is having back-to-back-to-back meetings and you feel the excitement of...

Published 02-24-2010 4:35 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE, Femtocells, Mobile World Congress, applications

Snowflakes, Bad Internet, Barcelona & the Video Convergence Forum

By the time you read this, I will have been in Barcelona for a week. While I was coming to Barcelona anyway for Mobile World Congress, I came early since the Video Convergence Forum was launched the Thursday before MWC started. Next week, I will report...

Published 02-17-2010 2:45 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Video, Mobile World Congress, Video Convergence Forum

mLearning - the School in Your Pocket

This week the BBC made an interesting announcement about BBC Janala , a service that is using mobile to teach the English language in Bangladesh. Janala (which means "window") is a relatively low-tech solution, using SMS and voice on mobile...

Published 02-17-2010 9:48 AM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: mLearning

Cloud Computing - What Factors Make it Viable?

In a previous blog , I discussed the early stages of cloud computing, and now I’ll touch on why this concept has taken hold now, or shall we say, why cloud computing is at least more viable now. First of all, we have better technology now than we...

Published 02-10-2010 7:44 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing

The "End of Free" - Mobile Video Leads the Way

Last time , I wrote about some recent announcements (and rumors) about “the end of free” – i.e. media companies that are starting to charge for access to their content on the internet. While this is interesting for folks who are heavy...

Published 02-09-2010 3:34 AM by Bob Logan

Filed under: mobile video quality "business model"

Adding Video to Voice: Crossing the Chasm

I just returned from a trip to visit several different countries while attending the IT Expo trade show and participating in a variety of internal meetings. In my travels, I found a lot of gathering interest in the question of how video can be added to...

Published 02-05-2010 2:40 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: Video, Gateways, Voice over IP, SIP-I, IMG 1010, Vision CX, H.324M

Cloud Computing — Those Clouds Aren't Pure White!

Most people in the industry today talk about cloud computing as a fait accompli, as something already done and deployed. I saw a lot of this kind of “breathing your own fumes” thinking with regard to VoIP around the year 2000. We were all...

Published 02-03-2010 11:09 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Voice over IP

Enjoy "free" while it lasts

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the 4G Wireless Evolution (4GWE) conference in Miami. This event is produced by my friend Carl Ford and the gang at Crossfire Media , and is held in conjunction with the IT Expo conference and exhibition. I spoke...

Published 02-01-2010 2:57 AM by Bob Logan

Filed under: streaming video, business model, IT Expo, 4GWE

Ah, So Why End POTS and the PSTN?

Last week , I discussed reading the report AT&T sent to the FCC explaining why they support an orderly end of the POTS and PSTN network. One point they made is about transitioning funds that would normally support universal telephony service to support...

Published 01-27-2010 11:05 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Voice over IP, broadband, PSTN

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